Long before the banks started evicting delinquent homeowners, Wall Street, it appears, used robo-signers to ink mortgage deals that would eventually cost investors tens of billions of dollars and in part led to the financial crisis.
According to lawsuits filed last week by the U.S.’s Federal Housing Financing Agency, one individual …
Richard Cordray, the former Ohio attorney general picked by President Obama to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, had a hearing with the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday. The elephant in the room — no pun intended …
At the retail store, most sales staffers are understandably focused on the sale, not the return policy. So it’s often totally up to the consumer to investigate where the store’s policies fall on the spectrum from downright stingy …
What if you were about to retire and could put all of your savings in a single, ultra-low-risk investment with near certainty that you would never outlive your money? Well, maybe you can with Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities.
A study published by credit card comparison site CardHub.com last week shows that while the Credit CARD Act of 2009 has helped make the thicket of fine print and legalese somewhat easier to navigate, it’s still a jungle out there. The site’s 2011 Credit Card Application Study looked into the application materials that the 10 biggest …
Readers in the New York City area may be interested to know that TIME Moneyland is a proud media sponsor of a Financial Fitness Workshop being put on by the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies and the Financial Planning Association of New York on Saturday, October 1 at the NYU School of Law in Manhattan’s …
Europeans back from summer vacation this week may be wishing they’d stayed on the beach. Stock markets in Germany, Italy, and France all dropped about 5% Monday, after the so-called “troika” of European institutions (the …
Joining the ever-growing list of odd economic indicators that includes the hot waitress index and men’s underwear index, here’s one that might be called the diaper rash index. Over the past couple of years, sales of disposable …
The daily deal model works well with restaurants, spas, and other small, service-oriented businesses. But Groupon and other daily deal sites are constantly branching out, experimenting with specially discounted vouchers for …
As vacation season ends for many of us — bringing, for some, a sense of dread about the return to workday (if not actual employment) routines — we thought we’d offer a bit of encouragement, which might also help you make the …
A home with a guitar-shaped pool. An estate that once included a personal movie screening room for none other than Walt Disney. And the house where abolitionist John Brown was hanged. Take our virtual tour of these historic homes …
